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The 1964 Tasman Series was the first Tasman Series

Tasman Series

The Tasman Series was a motor racing series held from 1964 to 1975, in Australia and New Zealand, and named after the Tasman Sea between the two countries...

season. It began on 4 January 1964 and ended on 2 March after eight races.

The series was won by Bruce McLaren, the only one of the four race winning drivers who attended all eight races, a trifecta of wins in New Zealand setting up the title.

Races

Round		Name	Circuit	Date	Winning driver	Winning car	Winning team	Report
New Zealand New Zealand New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...	1	Levin International	Levin Levin, New Zealand Levin is a town in the Manawatu-Wanganui region of New Zealand, and is the largest town in the Horowhenua district. It is 90 kilometres north of Wellington, 50 kilometres south of Palmerston North, and two kilometres to the east of Lake Horowhenua....	4 January	Denny Hulme Denny Hulme Denis Clive "Denny" Hulme, OBE was a New Zealand racing driver, the 1967 Formula One World Champion for the Brabham team....	Brabham BT4	Ecurie Vitesse	Report
	2	New Zealand Grand Prix New Zealand Grand Prix The New Zealand Grand Prix, sometimes known as the New Zealand International Grand Prix, is an annual motor racing event held in New Zealand first run in 1950. Currently it is the signature race of the Toyota Racing Series. It is one of only two current national Grand Prix events that are not part...	Pukekohe Pukekohe Park Raceway Although Pukekohe Park Raceway is better known internationally as a motor racing circuit, it is primarily a horse racing circuit in New Zealand. It is located south of Auckland City in the North Island. The track is now owned by Pukekohe Park Limited...	11 January	Bruce McLaren Bruce McLaren Bruce Leslie McLaren , born in Auckland, New Zealand, was a race-car designer, driver, engineer and inventor....	Cooper T70	Bruce McLaren Motor Racing McLaren McLaren Racing Limited, trading as Vodafone McLaren Mercedes, is a British Formula One team based in Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom. McLaren is best known as a Formula One constructor but has also competed and won in the Indianapolis 500 and Canadian-American Challenge Cup...	Report 1964 New Zealand Grand Prix The 1964 New Zealand Grand Prix was a race held at Pukekohe Park Raceway on 11 January 1964. The race had 16 starters.It was the eleventh New Zealand Grand Prix and doubled as round two of the 1964 Tasman Series. Bruce McLaren broke through to finally win his home grand prix in this the first...
	3	Lady Wigram Trophy Lady Wigram Trophy The Lady Wigram Trophy is a New Zealand motorsport race trophy formerly awarded to the winner of the Wigram Airfield race. It made up part of the Tasman Series and classes like Formula Holden, Formula 5000, Formula Pacific and Formula Three Lady Wigram Trophy is now contested by Formula 5000 at...	Wigram Wigram Airfield Circuit Wigram Airfield Circuit was a temporary motor racing circuit at Wigram Aerodrome, Christchurch, New Zealand. The airfield is a former base of the Royal New Zealand Air Force. It is named after Sir Henry Wigram. The temporary circuit was 3 km with a 1.3 km main straight...	18 January	Bruce McLaren Bruce McLaren Bruce Leslie McLaren , born in Auckland, New Zealand, was a race-car designer, driver, engineer and inventor....	Cooper T70	Bruce McLaren Motor Racing McLaren McLaren Racing Limited, trading as Vodafone McLaren Mercedes, is a British Formula One team based in Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom. McLaren is best known as a Formula One constructor but has also competed and won in the Indianapolis 500 and Canadian-American Challenge Cup...	Report
	4	Teretonga International	Teretonga Teretonga Park Teretonga is a motor racing circuit situated south-west of Invercargill, New Zealand. It is home of the Southland Sports Car Club. The circuit was established in 1957 and said to be the southern most race track in the world...	25 January	Bruce McLaren Bruce McLaren Bruce Leslie McLaren , born in Auckland, New Zealand, was a race-car designer, driver, engineer and inventor....	Cooper T70	Bruce McLaren Motor Racing McLaren McLaren Racing Limited, trading as Vodafone McLaren Mercedes, is a British Formula One team based in Woking, Surrey, United Kingdom. McLaren is best known as a Formula One constructor but has also competed and won in the Indianapolis 500 and Canadian-American Challenge Cup...	Report
Australia Australia Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...	5	Australian Grand Prix Australian Grand Prix The Australian Grand Prix is a motor race held annually and is held to be the pinnacle of motor racing in Australia. The Grand Prix is the oldest surviving motor racing competition held in Australia having been held 76 times since it was first run at Phillip Island in 1928. Since 1985 the race has...	Sandown Sandown Raceway Sandown International Raceway is a motor racing circuit in Melbourne, Victoria, approximately south east of the city centre. It is considered a power circuit with its front straight being 899m long and back straight 910m long.-History:...	9 February	Jack Brabham Jack Brabham Sir John Arthur "Jack" Brabham, AO, OBE is an Australian former racing driver who was Formula One champion in , and . He was a founder of the Brabham racing team and race car constructor that bore his name....	Brabham BT7A	Ecurie Vitesse	Report 1964 Australian Grand Prix The 1964 Australian Grand Prix was a race held at Sandown International Raceway on 9 February 1964. The race had 19 starters.It was the twenty ninth Australian Grand Prix and doubled as round six of the 1964 Tasman Series. Defending winner Jack Brabham won his third and last AGP.- Classification...
	6	Warwick Farm International	Warwick Farm Warwick Farm Raceway Warwick Farm Raceway was a motor racing facility which was in operation from 1960 to 1973. Warwick Farm Raceway hosted numerous major events during its life such as the Australian Grand Prix and rounds of both the Australian Touring Car Championship and the Tasman Series.-History:Warwick Farm...	16 February	Jack Brabham Jack Brabham Sir John Arthur "Jack" Brabham, AO, OBE is an Australian former racing driver who was Formula One champion in , and . He was a founder of the Brabham racing team and race car constructor that bore his name....	Brabham BT7A	Ecurie Vitesse	Report
	7	Lakeside International	Lakeside Lakeside International Raceway Lakeside Park, formerly known as Lakeside International Raceway is a motor racing circuit located at Pine Rivers north of Brisbane and lies adjacent to Lake Kurwongbah....	23 February	Jack Brabham Jack Brabham Sir John Arthur "Jack" Brabham, AO, OBE is an Australian former racing driver who was Formula One champion in , and . He was a founder of the Brabham racing team and race car constructor that bore his name....	Brabham BT7A	Ecurie Vitesse	Report
	8	South Pacific Trophy	Longford Longford Circuit The Longford Circuit was a temporary motor racing course laid out on public roads at Longford, south-west of Launceston in Tasmania, Australia...	2 March	Graham Hill Graham Hill Norman Graham Hill was a British racing driver and two-time Formula One World Champion. He is the only driver to win the Triple Crown of Motorsport — the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Indianapolis 500 and Formula One World Championship.Graham Hill and his son Damon are the only father and son pair both to...	Brabham BT4	Scuderia Veloce Scuderia Veloce Scuderia Veloce was an Australian motor racing team founded by journalist racer David McKay that competed in many motor racing categories in the 1960s. The team is regarded as the first professional motor racing operation in Australia....	Report

Standings

One score could be dropped from the Australian races and one could be dropped from the New Zealand races, however the dropped races could not include the Australian Grand Prix or the New Zealand Grand Prix. Dropped scores indicated in brackets.

Position	1	2	3	4	5	6
Points	9	6	4	3	2	1

EWLINE

Pos	Driver	LEV	PUK	WIG	TER	SAN	WAR	LAK	LON	Pts
1	Bruce McLaren Bruce McLaren Bruce Leslie McLaren , born in Auckland, New Zealand, was a race-car designer, driver, engineer and inventor....	(3)	1	1	1	Ret	2	(3)	2	39 (47)
2	Jack Brabham Jack Brabham Sir John Arthur "Jack" Brabham, AO, OBE is an Australian former racing driver who was Formula One champion in , and . He was a founder of the Brabham racing team and race car constructor that bore his name....		Ret	2		1	1	1	Ret	33
3	Denny Hulme Denny Hulme Denis Clive "Denny" Hulme, OBE was a New Zealand racing driver, the 1967 Formula One World Champion for the Brabham team....	1	2	3	Ret	5	5	9		23
4	Timmy Mayer Timmy Mayer Timothy Mayer , was a racecar driver from Dalton, Pennsylvania in the United States. He participated in one World Championship Formula One Grand Prix, on October 7, 1962. He retired with ignition failure and scored no championship points.Mayer's older brother Teddy was one of the founders of the...	2	3	8	2	4	3	Ret	DNS	23
5	John Youl John Youl John Youl was an Australian motor racing driver, race track owner and prominent Tasmanian grazier.Youl was best known for his driving in open wheel racing cars during the 1950s and 1960s and by the 60's was one of the most prominent Australians of this discipline...	4	4	4	DNS	3	Ret	2	5	21
6	Graham Hill Graham Hill Norman Graham Hill was a British racing driver and two-time Formula One World Champion. He is the only driver to win the Triple Crown of Motorsport — the 24 Hours of Le Mans, Indianapolis 500 and Formula One World Championship.Graham Hill and his son Damon are the only father and son pair both to...						4		1	12
7	Bib Stillwell					2	6		4	10
8	Jim Palmer	(6)	5	5	3	6	10		8	9 (10)
9	Tony Shelly	5	6	(6)	4	8	7	5	7	8 (9)
10	Frank Matich Frank Matich Frank Matich, born 1935, was an Australian racing car driver. A highly successful motor racing competitor in the 1960s and 70s, Matich built his own range of Matich sports cars and open wheel cars, mainly to support his own career, but some cars found success with other drivers...		Ret			Ret	Ret	Ret	3	4
11	Frank Gardner Frank Gardner (driver) Frank Gardner OAM was a racing driver from Australia. He was best known as a Touring car racing and Sports car racing driver. He also participated in nine World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 11 July 1964. He scored no championship points...					10	13	4	9	3
12	Bill Thomasen	Ret	DNS		5					2
13	Roly Levis	7	9	10	6					1
14	Lex Davison Lex Davison Alexander Nicholas Davison was a racing driver who won the Australian Grand Prix four times between 1954 and 1961 and won the Australian Drivers' Championship in 1957...					Ret	8		6	1
15	Glynn Scott					Ret	Ret	6		1
16	Rex Flowers	8	12	7	Ret		12	8		0
17	Andy Buchanan	10	7	9						0
18	Greg Cusack						11	7	10	0
19	Arnold Glass					7	Ret	Ret	Ret	0
=	Jim Boyd		Ret		7					0
21	Ken Sager		11	11	8					0
22	David Young		8	Ret						0
23	Neil Whittaker	9								0
=	David Walker David Walker (racing driver) David Walker is an Australian former racing driver who drove for Lotus in the 1971 and 1972 Formula One Championships.-Career:...					9	Ret	Ret	Ret	0
=	Leo Geoghegan Leo Geoghegan Leo Geoghegan is a retired Australian racing driver.Geoghegan is the elder of two sons of New South Wales car dealer Tom Geoghegan, who went on to become two of the dominant names in Australian motor racing in the 1960s...					Ret	9			0
26	Dene Hollier		10							0
27	Peter Slocombe	11								0
=	Jack Hobden								11	0
29	Mel McEwin					Ret			12	0
—	Chris Amon Chris Amon Christopher Arthur Amon MBE is a former motor racing driver. He was active in Formula One - racing in the 1960s and 1970s - and is widely regarded to be one of the best F1 drivers never to win a championship Grand Prix...	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret					0
—	Charlie Smith					Ret	Ret			0
—	Jack Hunnam					Ret	Ret			0
—	Bill Patterson Bill Patterson (racing driver) Gerard William Riggall "Bill" Patterson was an Australian motor racing driver, race team owner and businessman....					Ret			Ret	0
—	Tony Osborne					Ret			Ret	0
—	Bruce Abernethy	Ret								0
—	Doug Whiteford Doug Whiteford Doug Whiteford was an Australian racing driver.Whiteford was best known as a competitor in the Australian Grand Prix which he won three times in four years. He was fondly remember for his Talbot-Lago T26 Formula One car which he used to win his second and third Grands Prix. His third win was at the...					Ret				0
—	Keith Rilstone					Ret				0
—	David Fletcher					Ret				0
—	Wally Mitchell					Ret				0
—	Lionel Ayers							Ret		0
—	Barry Porter				DNS					0
—	Ken Smith		DNQ							0
Pos	Driver	LEV	PUK	WIG	TER	SAN	WAR	LAK	LON	Pts

Key

Abbreviation	Circuit
LAK	Lakeside
LEV	Levin
LON	Longford
PUK	Pukekohe
SAN	Sandown
TER	Teretonga
WAR	Warwick Farm
WIG	Wigram

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